Well, we’ve heard so much this week about women in leadership, it looks like it’s perfect timing to celebrate the feast of Mary Magdalene (which was honored this past Monday)! If you’re like me though, it may take a minute to make a connection between female leadership and Mary Magdalene, because I don’t think we…

I think I made everybody laugh at Bible study when I candidly asked around if, by the time you retire, you end up being less busy. When they stopped laughing, someone said to me: “Oh, we find other things to do!“ Busyness is really a disease of our time…or maybe it’s not? Because my sense…

Have you ever had someone telling you that if only you had enough faith, your prayers would be answered? When we’re struggling with something, and especially if we struggle for a long time, there is likely to be a good Christian to show up and give us this type of advice: You need to pray…

Xavier and I went to Rome the first year of our marriage. I had never been to Italy, I guess it was the romantic thing to do but also I had an agenda: I wanted to see all the churches and the Vatican, the museums and the Sistine Chapel. So we got up early on…

I like it that, in our Gospel today, Jesus refers to King David to justify his own actions and his disciples’ behavior because once again, it shows us that it’s really hard to understand Jesus if we don’t understand the Old Testament. To understand Jesus, we actually need to understand the OT twice: As Jewish…

These past months we have come to get to know much more about the Hebrew Bible as we have been encountering many different characters of the Old testament through our weekly study. We enjoy discussing their stories, often uplifting, sometimes unsettling, always quite colorful, and we realize that in the process we also learn much…

On the Day of Pentecost, we celebrate the gift of the Holy Spirit / the coming of the Holy Spirit, the well-known story we have just heard in the Book of Acts…Many details are probably familiar to you: the tongues of fire, the languages, the new wine, the young people seeing visions, the old people…

I have been meaning to preach on the psalms for the longest time but I never knew where to start with. So when I realized that this Sunday we would read Psalm 1, I thought this was maybe the perfect opportunity!Let’s just start with the beginning….And indeed psalm 1 is the beginning, psalms aren’t randomly…

– You may remember we mentioned a few weeks ago that on the Sundays after Easter, we have a cycle of readings that can be a bit repetitive (think: “Doubting Thomas Sunday”). Well, this Sunday again, we don’t have much of a surprise with our lessons. If you’re a frequent flyer in the Episcopal Church,…

I often have to remind myself to refrain from going down the social medias rabbit hole, but this week I found myself spending much more time than I needed to reading everything everyone had to say about the death of a certain celebrity who had famously been on trial for the murder of his wife…